DMX Sued For Claiming He Was Raped By Mother Of His Son
Monday October 16, 2006 @ 07:30 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff

DMX has been hit with a $2 million U.S. defamation lawsuit by the woman who claims to be the mother of his two-year-old son, Javon Micai Wayne, over comments he made in a recent interview with Sister 2 Sister Magazine.

Monique Wayne filed the suit against the Yonkers, New York rapper (real name Earl Simmons) on October 12. In it, she claims that she met DMX at a Washington, D.C. nightclub on August 2, 2003 and that they later spent part of the night having consensual sex at the Helix Hotel.

Wayne later announced to DMX that she was pregnant. She claims that he invited her to travel with him to shows and that the two of them spoke on the phone about parenting issues and child-rearing techniques. She filed a successful lawsuit after the boy was born to establish paternity and obtain child support.

In the Sister 2 Sister interview conducted late in the summer, DMX accused Wayne of raping and stalking him. "She raped me," he said in the magazine's October issue.

"I mean, you know, that might sound like some bullshit. No man has ever been. You know what I mean, like never? Is that the only thing in the world that's not possible?"

Wayne's lawyers claim that DMX made "mischaracterizations" about his interactions with their client, and that he knowingly made false and defamatory statements with intent to harm her. As a result, Wayne has suffered "severe emotional distress, anxiety, humiliation, damage to her character, distress, mental shock, mental anguish, and psychological trauma, and was otherwise injured and will remain injured for a considerable length of time."

The suit says that DMX's statements affected Wayne's character, reputation and standing in the community. She's seeking $1 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages, plus attorney's fees, interest and costs.

A day before his debut album, Trap House, is slated to hit stores, Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane is in a Georgia jail facing a murder rap.

Mane (whose real name is Radric Davis) turned himself in to DeKalb County police on Thursday night after a warrant was issued for his arrest in connection with a May 10 shooting at a local residence that left a 27-year-old man dead, according to his lawyer.

The 25-year-old rapper, whose "Icy" collaboration with Young Jeezy has become a national hit, was informed of the charge on Wednesday while in New York promoting his album.

According to witness accounts given to Mane's lawyer, Dennis Scheib, Mane was visiting a female friend on the night of the shooting when five men — three of them dressed in all black — stormed into the apartment. The unidentified armed men threatened to shoot the rapper, punched him in the mouth and pistol whipped his friend. Scheib said the witnesses heard a scuffle and gunshots and saw the men flee the apartment, with one asking another, "Are you hit?"

"The one who was hit walked by the witness and ran into the woods while the other three ran the other way and left in a truck," Scheib said. "My client got in his vehicle and went the opposite way of the man who was shot. The landlord of the place said it looked like a robbery."

Scheib, a former police officer, said that given the evidence he has gathered from witnesses, the shooting appeared to be self-defense. "If it was," he said, "then why is my client in jail for murder?"

The body of one of the men, Henry Lee Clark III, was found three days later near a local middle school.

According to Sergeant W. Durrett of the DeKalb County Police Department, officials believe that the alleged attackers were acquaintances of Mane. "He produced a handgun and started shooting," Durrett said of Mane. He added that the witnesses interviewed so far appear to corroborate the story that Mane was the shooter. Durrett was not able to say how many gunshot wounds Clark sustained or what the motive might have been in the altercation, but officials believe that the gun used in the shooting belonged to Mane.

Mane and Young Jeezy have been trading dis records for the past few weeks, allegedly over a feud stemming from their hit collaboration (see "Mixtape Monday: Alchemist Prepares To Rock For Em; Junior M.A.F.I.A. Know Biggie's Turning In His Grave"). Jeezy hit out at Mane in a song entitled "Stay Strapped," while Mane shot back with "Round One." Jeezy chalked the controversy up to an attempt by Mane to sell records. "I know where I stand," he said. "I know who I am. I'm grown. I don't play them games." Mane said Jeezy — who also raps on the Mane song "Black Tee" — was angry because he wanted "Icy" for his upcoming solo debut, Let's Get It: Thug Motivation Vol. 1 (which comes out June 28). "He's mad 'cause I ain't let him put the song on his album," Mane said. "We was never really cool."

Mane — whose album title, Trap House, is slang for a place where drugs are sold — was arrested in April 2001 on cocaine charges and sentenced to 90 days in jail, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

A bond hearing was expected Monday (May 23), but at press time Scheib said he did not think Mane would be released before Tuesday. Mane is slated to face a preliminary hearing on July 5.

carryin a gun don't make you street...bein able to handle your biz with ur hands/feet is sayin more...

I swear to god these studio gangsters got y'all fucked in the head...the youth lost

LOL nigga i aint even studyin these niggas in the studio ... wat da fuck ...

i guess u missed the part where i said if a nigga got beef tell him to run a round (which means fight with fists) ....

and u right ... carryin a gun dont make u street ... but if a nigga come up to u wit a yoppa and u aint got one what the fuck u gone do then with your 'hands and feet' .... run mothafucka???? get yo azz shot right in da back